Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Old Tutor Jorga rose last week to address the greybeards of the Rumanian Senate, they assumed that, as usual, his sallies would be spicy. For once Jorga spoke fairly seriously: "If His Majesty has sinned it is because he is human. Whoever gossips about a woman is vulgar and mean, and whoever thinks of the King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country...
...HANGMAN-John Stephen Strange-Crime Club ($2). Snow, gossip, kidnapping and murder in Baltimore. Through pink note paper and pink cheeks, the U. S. Post Office's Inspector Peel narrowly averts injustice...
...author who was autographing his books, Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo ?and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced: "The time has come to take the profit out of war." To take the profit...
...Daisy suspected her daughter Terry of an ineffable sin with one of her oldest friends, and she went about allaying her frightful suspicions in the only way she knew. In spite of the gooseberries everything seemed to be coming out all right when Terry's tongue slipped. That set gossip wagging. Daisy might have shut her ears to the gossip but when she was assailed by a friendly but blackmailing social-climber, she knew the fat was in the fire. She collapsed, fled to her inaccessible cottage in France to hide her shame. Who pursued her there and what happened...
...eight bridesmaids: dumpling Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, placid last week amid spiteful Mayfair gossip that she tried in vain for Prince George last summer...